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Anne H. Flitcraft, MD

JAMA. 1992;267(23):3194-3195.

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Dialogue between medical student and adviser New Haven, Conn, 1975

Violence epidemiology is still in its infancy. In our offices, clinics, and emergency departments we all see injury and its consequences, perhaps daily.

And yet, like a clinical Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the more closely we focus on injuries, the less we seem to understand the violent relationships that culminate in these injuries. When we begin to make the connection between our patients' health problems and violence, we experience the same sort of epiphany that came with child abuse in the 1960s.

I was shocked into recognizing the complex interplay of poor health, injury, and violence during residency when I was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Division of General Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Conn.

Footnotes
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